In the 1980s public places were quieter. I only needed my headphones on the lowest setting to listen to music - a level where it wouldn't disturb others.
Now public places are much noisier, people on mobile phones, playing gameboys, etc - if I put earphones in on my mp3 player I find I need the volume much higher (same with my minidisc player 2000 vs 2005, same player same songs). I've stopped using things with headphones as I have to have them too loud to hear over the background.
And no, before you ask I'm not going deaf - I never used earphones for long periods of time anyway. I still have excellent hearing, I can even hear the lower bat frequencies ~20khz very clearly.
1. Er, no you have a coast but you're not surrounded by water. (But I agree all kids should learn to swim).
2. I used to teach kids to swim, I gave my time for free but the parents had to pay 70 pence (about $1 dollar) to cover costs of hiring swimming pool, badges, etc.
3. I used to be a lifeguard - stopped in 1998 after 3 years. Our main pool had a capacity of 168 , which needed 5 life guards at that level. Under 42 was 1 lifeguard and I never had trouble watching the whole pool.
4. I did know of a lifeguard to missed spotting an epileptic guy sink to the bottom. That was quite bad - a member of the public pulled them up.
Funnily enough I've submitted two papers. One is definitely true, I'm mostly convinced by the other. I do know of incorrect papers in my field, but that usually turns out to be correct data bad interpretation (or lack of correct experiments).
Dixon's cater for the "must buy now" category, not the well thought out purchase. People won't buy an SLR in Dixons, but they might buy a compact digital on the spur of th moment.
It is worth noting, for our foreign readers, that Dixons are a terrible chain of stores selling overpriced electronic goods. The staff are all salesmen they don't have any one who actually knows anything (eg difference between RAM and HD, or Mac and PC). Prices are usually between 50% and 100% more than online (eg Amazon).
So basically, no one would really mind if the whole chain just upped and died.
RAR is not a compression format. It is an archiving format. The reason people use TAR is so that you can check if the file is broken during download. A broken AVI migth bork, a brroken TAR would tell you when untarring.
RAR, similar to TAR is an archiving format for splitting files into identical size chunks (for floppy disks). A ZIP file of RARs seems very pointless. The only advantage I can see is that if one RAR file is broken (1 or 25 say) then you only need to download that RAR again, not the whole thing. In practice this doesn't seem very simple and not useful for file sharing.
I just had to shutdown our lab server (just a group machine with some files, nothing critical). 113 days of uptime (Fedora Core 2). I asked the dept IT guy (all windows) and the department server has never been close.
221 hours made me laugh, next they'll be quoting Windows Vista uptime in minutes;-)
What this article is saying is that whilst there are some who download all their music, and some who buy all their music. The *majority* of downloaders are in the middle and buy some and download some. They on average buy 4.5 times the amount that people who buy only would spend.
The upshot is make music cheaper, $0.99 in the US but iTunes is 99p in the UK about $1.7. Without CD and distribution costs + supplier profit, straight to web service should make music cheaper. People are paying for 1 song at $0.99 and downloading 4 others = effectively reducing the cost to $0.20 per song.
Yes, and Dr Spock was a paediatric doctor (children). The character in Star Trek was simply Spock (when 1st officer addressed Mr Spock in the navy tradition).
Any way neither Spocks nor Yoda were know for their use of Novell or any other flavour of Linux.
I met my best friend's girlfriend yesterday. She works for a firm that sells embedded OS software. They've received their beta of longhorn. She didn't seem that impressed and she loves microsoft to the point of trying to convince me Linux (a movix disk) broke her graphics card.
They freeze a version of Sid. Then make it really stable, then release it. More Ubuntu developers != more Debian progress.
Ubuntu is built of Debian and therefore if Debian continues to worsen it will be a bad thing for Ubuntu. This is why it is one reason all those thousand of Debian based distros are bad, too man developers doing the same thing - polishing a frozen Debian release for their own distro.
Hopefully, Ubuntu and Debian can become closer linked and Ubuntu fund Debian developers.
Yes. Perhaps the GP poster meant binary patches. The patches to the Linux kernel are just the way the kernel evolves. The MS patches are fixes applied after it has been built.
That's a joke. Fenland Polytechnic (aka Cambridge Uni) doesn't even offer a proper science course. They have Natural Sciences - designed to ensure that after 3-4 years you STILL have no specific knowledge and are only fit for PhD at a crappier university or a job in the city.
Tabs! Those who don't know their arse from the elbow.
I'd be willing to bet he's right. He is currently awaiting a doctorate from the University of Oxford, which is commonly held as the finest academic institution in the world.
(I'm not biased by having spent the past 7 years there)
It isn't Windows applications that are "the enemy". Wine allows you to run applications that are important to your business on the GNU/Linux operating system.
The reason this is good is that business cannot switch to the more secure GNU/Linux OS, but still use apps they don't have time to migrate from.
Needing to use a proprietry windows accounting program is all that holds my mum's company back from switching to GNU/Linux. If it will work under wine she can start the migration process now, and switch from Pegasus Opera to native Linux when she isn't up to her eyelids keeping the company running.
Summary for those who skipped the above message : Wine is GOOD, it is an important intermediate step in moving to GNU/Linux from a total Microsoft environment.
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but here in Oxford I thought google was only scanning really old stuff that is too fragile to be read. The Bod (our library) has some very old stuff.
And before anyone from the US replies, old in Oxford means pre 1600 ie before anyone went to your country from Europe and killed the natives.
In the 1980s public places were quieter. I only needed my headphones on the lowest setting to listen to music - a level where it wouldn't disturb others.
Now public places are much noisier, people on mobile phones, playing gameboys, etc - if I put earphones in on my mp3 player I find I need the volume much higher (same with my minidisc player 2000 vs 2005, same player same songs). I've stopped using things with headphones as I have to have them too loud to hear over the background.
And no, before you ask I'm not going deaf - I never used earphones for long periods of time anyway. I still have excellent hearing, I can even hear the lower bat frequencies ~20khz very clearly.
1. Er, no you have a coast but you're not surrounded by water. (But I agree all kids should learn to swim).
2. I used to teach kids to swim, I gave my time for free but the parents had to pay 70 pence (about $1 dollar) to cover costs of hiring swimming pool, badges, etc.
3. I used to be a lifeguard - stopped in 1998 after 3 years. Our main pool had a capacity of 168 , which needed 5 life guards at that level. Under 42 was 1 lifeguard and I never had trouble watching the whole pool.
4. I did know of a lifeguard to missed spotting an epileptic guy sink to the bottom. That was quite bad - a member of the public pulled them up.
You can't snoop on it (so easily). In secure establishments bluetooth is a liability.
I suppose that's not your real name as there are no papers by "Blender, N*" in the Web of Science database.
Funnily enough I've submitted two papers. One is definitely true, I'm mostly convinced by the other. I do know of incorrect papers in my field, but that usually turns out to be correct data bad interpretation (or lack of correct experiments).
Dixon's cater for the "must buy now" category, not the well thought out purchase. People won't buy an SLR in Dixons, but they might buy a compact digital on the spur of th moment.
It is worth noting, for our foreign readers, that Dixons are a terrible chain of stores selling overpriced electronic goods. The staff are all salesmen they don't have any one who actually knows anything (eg difference between RAM and HD, or Mac and PC). Prices are usually between 50% and 100% more than online (eg Amazon).
So basically, no one would really mind if the whole chain just upped and died.
RAR is not a compression format. It is an archiving format. The reason people use TAR is so that you can check if the file is broken during download. A broken AVI migth bork, a brroken TAR would tell you when untarring.
RAR, similar to TAR is an archiving format for splitting files into identical size chunks (for floppy disks). A ZIP file of RARs seems very pointless. The only advantage I can see is that if one RAR file is broken (1 or 25 say) then you only need to download that RAR again, not the whole thing. In practice this doesn't seem very simple and not useful for file sharing.
The dentist givs me a lead vest.
Does he regularly travel to Mars? Do you travel to Mars at the dentist's?
No! What a suprise. These astronauts would be exposed to a higher energy flux for months! They're not just popping up there for root canal work.
emerge sync; emerge -u world;etc-update.
:-)
What is the equivelant in windows?
Answer: Write all documents to CD. Buy new computer with new Windows. Reinstall all documents from CD.
Nice and simple, and considering th $699 SCO Linux license it's much cheaper
[PS If you're American and don't understand this kind of humour please don't mod this down.]
... the quicker people will migrate to Firefox.
Ha! I didn't even get a congratulations - I'm the only one who turned up for work today.
I just had to shutdown our lab server (just a group machine with some files, nothing critical). 113 days of uptime (Fedora Core 2). I asked the dept IT guy (all windows) and the department server has never been close.
;-)
221 hours made me laugh, next they'll be quoting Windows Vista uptime in minutes
What this article is saying is that whilst there are some who download all their music, and some who buy all their music. The *majority* of downloaders are in the middle and buy some and download some. They on average buy 4.5 times the amount that people who buy only would spend.
The upshot is make music cheaper, $0.99 in the US but iTunes is 99p in the UK about $1.7. Without CD and distribution costs + supplier profit, straight to web service should make music cheaper. People are paying for 1 song at $0.99 and downloading 4 others = effectively reducing the cost to $0.20 per song.
dihydromoxide? You mean hydrogen oxide (no need to use mono or di or any other crap).
Secondly, injecting H2O into the body would kill someone. That's why hospitals use glucose or saline solutions.
I just installed Deer Park Alpha 2.
Slashdot renders correctly and the whole thing seems faster and neater.
Yes, and Dr Spock was a paediatric doctor (children). The character in Star Trek was simply Spock (when 1st officer addressed Mr Spock in the navy tradition).
Any way neither Spocks nor Yoda were know for their use of Novell or any other flavour of Linux.
I met my best friend's girlfriend yesterday. She works for a firm that sells embedded OS software. They've received their beta of longhorn. She didn't seem that impressed and she loves microsoft to the point of trying to convince me Linux (a movix disk) broke her graphics card.
Ubuntu is limited by Debian's progress.
They freeze a version of Sid. Then make it really stable, then release it. More Ubuntu developers != more Debian progress.
Ubuntu is built of Debian and therefore if Debian continues to worsen it will be a bad thing for Ubuntu. This is why it is one reason all those thousand of Debian based distros are bad, too man developers doing the same thing - polishing a frozen Debian release for their own distro.
Hopefully, Ubuntu and Debian can become closer linked and Ubuntu fund Debian developers.
Yes. Perhaps the GP poster meant binary patches. The patches to the Linux kernel are just the way the kernel evolves. The MS patches are fixes applied after it has been built.
Worth pointing out, the exception is an extra freedom not a less-freedom (which of course would make it not GPL).
I'm not too clear on GPL vs LGPL but the extra "you can link this from non GPL...." sounds like a cross between the two.
Good point. I have never had much experience with KDE - mainly because I've always used RH or FC and GNOME is much better represented.
That's a joke. Fenland Polytechnic (aka Cambridge Uni) doesn't even offer a proper science course. They have Natural Sciences - designed to ensure that after 3-4 years you STILL have no specific knowledge and are only fit for PhD at a crappier university or a job in the city.
Tabs! Those who don't know their arse from the elbow.
I'd be willing to bet he's right. He is currently awaiting a doctorate from the University of Oxford, which is commonly held as the finest academic institution in the world.
(I'm not biased by having spent the past 7 years there)
It isn't Windows applications that are "the enemy". Wine allows you to run applications that are important to your business on the GNU/Linux operating system.
The reason this is good is that business cannot switch to the more secure GNU/Linux OS, but still use apps they don't have time to migrate from.
Needing to use a proprietry windows accounting program is all that holds my mum's company back from switching to GNU/Linux. If it will work under wine she can start the migration process now, and switch from Pegasus Opera to native Linux when she isn't up to her eyelids keeping the company running.
Summary for those who skipped the above message : Wine is GOOD, it is an important intermediate step in moving to GNU/Linux from a total Microsoft environment.